- a variation of Navajo.
Navaho
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Navahos,
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Navahoes,
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Navaho
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noun
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a member of a North American Indian people of Arizona, New Mexico, and Utah
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the language of this people, belonging to the Athapascan group of the Na-Dene phylum
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of Navaho
C18: from Spanish Navajó pueblo, from Tena Navahu large planted field
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Navaho Pass and the peak of the same name typically see fewer people than other popular larch trails nearby.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 28, 2023
Not far away, the Navaho people also farmed and tended sheep they acquired from the Spanish, while their relatives the Apaches alternately fought and traded with Spaniards, Mexicans, and Anglo-Americans alike.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018
In his weaving, John blended Navaho techniques with the basketry designs of the Native Americans of the Northwest.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 29, 2015
In the early 1980s, Beard learned Navaho weaving from his parents, Ray and Mary Alice Beard, and joined their weaving demonstration at the fair.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 29, 2015
I felt like laughing, first with relief and then at the thought of my Dutch-Irish mother being anything so exotic as Florida Navaho.
From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin
I believe when the soldiers rode up I was about as glad to get a drink from one of their bottles as I was that the Navahoes bolted when they saw them coming.
From In the Heart of the Rockies by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
Besides, the Navahoes and the Apaches have got no fear of white men.
From In the Heart of the Rockies by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
"Leaping Horse went up the rocks to see if Navahoes have gone."
From In the Heart of the Rockies by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
As the Navahoes must have ridden down, Harry, there must be water.
From In the Heart of the Rockies by G. A. (George Alfred) Henty
The Tonquewas have since sprung from the Comanches, the Lepans and the Texas from the Apaches, and the Navahoes from the Arrapahoes.
From Travels and Adventures of Monsieur Violet by Frederick Marryat
A chain of events then drove them to fury, beginning with a prolonged drought that devastated crops and drew raids from neighboring Navahos and Apaches.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018
When, later, tourists demanded rugs, the Navahos, who had never used rugs in their lives, began making them by the thousand.
From Time Magazine Archive
One reason for the change: the Navahos have at last been sold on education.
From Time Magazine Archive
But his greatest influence came from childhood days in the Southwest: sand painting by the Navahos, who sifted colored earths through their fingers to form flat talismans on the ground.
From Time Magazine Archive
Not improbably, Coronado or others of the early Spanish explorers had ridden this trail, west and north around the great bend, into the territory of the Moquis and Navahos.
From Bloom of Cactus by Ralph P. (Ralph Pallen) Coleman
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